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Cydney Walls, at left, and Ryan Williams dance in the dressing room before being announced as debutantes at the 2016 Links Cotillion, an annual coming out and scholarship fundraising event, which celebrated the achievements of 17 African American young women from Chicagoland. The Links, which was founded in 1946, supports and celebrates young women of African ancestry by enriching their cultural and economic understanding of the world. The membership consists of nearly 14,000 professional women of color in 282 chapters located in 41 states the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

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Rites of Passage define our lives. They signify the progress of time as well as our citizenship in a tribe, in a culture — in life itself.

Chicago commemorates these moments in ways that reflect its diversity, but through difference, we find commonality. We are all connected through these formal and informal ceremonies that remind us how much family, love and time shape us.

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Cydney Walls, at left, and Ryan Williams dance in the dressing room before being announced as debutantes at the 2016 Links Cotillion, an annual coming out and scholarship fundraising event, which celebrated the achievements of 17 African American young women from Chicagoland. The Links, which was founded in 1946, supports and celebrates young women of African ancestry by enriching their cultural and economic understanding of the world. The membership consists of nearly 14,000 professional women of color in 282 chapters located in 41 states the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.<br /> <br /> --<br /> <br /> Rites of Passage define our lives. They signify the progress of time as well as our citizenship in a tribe, in a culture — in life itself.<br /> <br /> Chicago commemorates these moments in ways that reflect its diversity, but through difference, we find commonality. We are all connected through these formal and informal ceremonies that remind us how much family, love and time shape us.
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